Catch Me If You Can
... Biden Administration Plays Authoritarian Games
On 16 August 2023, I posted my first Substack detailing Department of Justice (DOJ) efforts to erase lower court rulings that make it difficult to reinstate a vaccine mandate. DOJ and the Biden administration are seeking Supreme Court review of narrow jurisdictional issues because they intend to implement unconstitutional COVID-19 pandemic measures again… and again.
Cases likes F4MF v. Biden represent a speed bump they can ill afford. Doster v. Frank Kendal III, Secretary of the Airforce is another case DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to identify as moot. The lawsuit was a result of an alleged incident where Secretary Kendall told senior officers attending the October 2021 Corona Fall Executive Conference that all religious exemptions should be denied.
Before making the remark, filings allege that:
“All Chaplains and all persons other than those MAJCOM commanders responsible for adjudicating accommodation requests to the Airforce vaccine mandate, were asked to leave the room as that the Secretary of the Air Force expectations concerning religious accommodation requests could be communicated to Air Force senior leaders.”
The lawsuit provided injunctive relief to plaintiffs from the Air Force, while the court case made its way through litigation.
We have yet another example of the Biden administration playing a “catch me if you can” game of executive overreach. The conclusions drawn by numerous courts, determining that there’s no reason to assume the Biden administration, or any future administration, plans to repeat their illegal acts are becoming patently absurd.
There are reports from Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and US Border Patrol whistleblowers that they intend to reinstate mask mandates for air travel. The administration continues to establish executive orders designed to manage a future pandemic response, and despite injunctive relief we are still seeing government job postings requiring the COVID-19 vaccine.
They believe they can steal incremental gains in an authoritarian power grab by leveraging the time it takes to address their unconstitutional acts in court. When the court offers rulings that run contrary to the administration’s goals, they pull the mandate and ask the courts to wipe the slate clean so they can adjust tactics and … do it all over again.
The views expressed are my own and do not represent the views of the USG of Feds for Medical Freedom.